Massive Power Outage

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by Mathias_Ice:
I assume you are typing this up from your solar powered PC so as not to be wasting power that should be going to the ambulance station or telephone switch. I'd hate to see a human life lost because you were using up that valuable electricity in such a greedy fashion as posting a message on the internet.

Not quite what I meant!!!

I was actually referring to the fact yesterday that when their was only 50-60% of the electricity available and many people had been without power in their neighbourhoods for over a day that those who had power did not listen to requests to reduce their consumption so that people without power might get a chance to get some and perhaps save their food in the refrigerator etc.

I'm not trying to be self-righteous nor do I want to a Sub-Saharan nomad, but I do make some efforts to reduce my consumption. Until better infrastructure is in place, it's important to conserve to prevent brownouts, higher energy costs, pollution, etc.

I think many gov't institutions, industries, and big business could take measures that would reduce their energy usage and costs with no negative effect on their bottom line. They're the biggest offenders.